Catalysis Science & Technology Blog

On the last day of the conference, Green Chemistry Editor-in-Chief Javier Pérez-Ramírez gave out 10 Best Oral Presentation awards: *Esteban Gaston Gioria, Technical University of Denmark *Qingpeng Cheng, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology *Maria Grabchenko, Tomsk State University *Laura Kraußer, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis *Andrea Fasolini, University of Bologna *Cherie Hsu, K…

Read Aleix’s Emerging Investigator article ‘Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the dry reforming of methane catalyzed by the Ru (0001) surface based on density functional theory calculations‘, DOI: 10.1039/D1CY02366G 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? Catalysis Science & Technology is read by people from several backgrounds who sh…

The RSC is delighted to sponsor the 22nd Brazilian Congress on Catalysis, taking place on 25 -29 of September in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil! In celebration of the return of this event in person, we are delighted to announce that a number of Catalysis Science & Technology themed issues will be free to read for all from September 25 – October 15! - The free to read Catalysis Science & Technology colle…

Read Max’s Emerging Investigator article ‘FEFOS: a method to derive oxide formation energies from oxidation states‘, DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00107E 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? I find Catalysis Science & Technology to be an excellent journal to disseminate impactful research in the field of catalysis, from fundamental to more appli…

Read Bin’s Emerging Investigator article ‘Mechanistic insights into the conversion of polyalcohols over Brønsted acid sites‘, DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00524K 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? In this work, funded by the US National Science Foundation, a graduate student Quy Nguyen performed DFT calculations to investigate the dehydration…

Read Stephanie’s Emerging Investigator article ‘Theoretical assessments of Pd–PdO phase transformation and its impacts on H2O2 synthesis and decomposition pathways‘, DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00404J 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? We truly enjoyed the process. The editors were able to find us reviewers who provided us with useful commen…

Read Matteo’s Emerging Investigator article ‘Understanding the geometric and basicity effects of organic polymer modifiers on Ru/TiO2 catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to hydrocarbons‘, DOI: 10.1039/D2CY01596J 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? Catalysis Science & Technology is a journal with the most exciting, deep fundamental and …

Read Siwei’s Emerging Investigator Series article, “Chitosan-derived carbon supported CoO combined with CdS facilitates visible light catalytic hydrogen evolution“, DOI 10.1039/D2CY01962K. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? As influenced by Prof. Ma Ding, my advisor, I have liked CST since I was a PhD student. I think CST is a high-i…

Read Ana’s Emerging Investigator Series article, ‘Soluble and reusable polymer-based catalysts with Brønsted and Lewis acidity for the one-pot synthesis of hydroxymethylfurfural from glucose‘, DOI: 10.1039/D2CY01619B 1. How do you feel about Catalysis Science & Technology as a place to publish research on this topic? Catalysis Science & Technology is a well-respected journal in our community; the…

Peter Deuss completed his studies at the University of Amsterdam, NL and thereafter joined the group of Paul Kamer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK as a PhD student working on bioinspired catalysis. He obtained his degree in 2011, moving on to work on bioconjugation technology development at the MRC UK, Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge in the group of Mike Gait. In 2013, he…

Titel Jurca obtained his B.Sc. at the University of Ottawa where he was first introduced to catalysis research in Deryn Fogg’s group, and at the University of Windsor working for Doug Stephan on FLPs. He returned to the University of Ottawa for his Ph.D. with Darrin Richeson on group 13 coordination chemistry. In 2012 he […]

Yi-Hsuan Lai grew up in Taiwan and obtained her BSc in Chemical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 2007 and her MSc in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2009. In 2011 she moved to the UK to pursue her PhD in solar water splitting in the Department of Chemistry at the […]

  Photographer: @RUB, Marquard Viktoria H. Gesner (Däschlein-Gessner) is Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). She obtained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. C. Strohmann at TU Dortmund in 2009 and was postdoc with Prof. T. D. Tilley at the University of California in Berkeley (USA). After a further postdoctoral […]

Luis Miguel Azofra (Ramón y Cajal Fellow) loves Quantum Chemistry as much as the sea. The latter was a gift he received for being born in the Canary Islands, the first is a passion he learned during his PhD in Prof Alkorta’s lab (CSIC, Spain). In 2015, Dr Sun and Prof MacFarlane introduced him to […]

Caroline Saouma was born in Pittsburgh, PA and grew up between Boulder, Colorado and Lausanne, Switzerland. After visiting NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) as a second grader, she knew she wanted to be a scientist. She went to MIT to complete her bachelor’s degree in chemistry, where she did research with Steve […]

Esteban Mejía studied chemistry at National University of Colombia in Bogota, where he also obtained his master’s degree with focus in polymer chemistry. In 2008 he moved to Switzerland to pursue his PhD in homogeneous catalysis at the ETH Zurich under the supervision of Antonio Togni. In 2012 he joined the group of Matthias Beller […]

We are delighted to announce that Professor Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief for Catalysis Science & Technology. Bert Weckhuysen received his Master degree in Chemical & Agricultural Engineering from Leuven University (Belgium) in 1991. After obtaining his PhD degree in Catalysis from Leuven University in 1995 under […]

    Catalysis Science & Technology, alongside Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Chemical Science, ChemComm & RSC Advances, were delighted to sponsor 5 Poster Prizes at The 8th UK Catalysis Conference.    Poster Prize Winners   Catalysis Science & Technology Shima Zainal, University of Manchester                          […]

Matthieu Raynal got his PhD degree under the supervision of Dr P. Braunstein in 2009 (Strasbourg). He conducted postdoctoral studies at UPMC with L. Bouteiller (Paris) and in the group of Prof. P. W. N. M. van Leeuwen at ICIQ (Tarragona, Spain). In 2012, he was appointed as a CNRS researcher at Sorbonne Université, Paris. […]

Dr. Ludovic Troian-Gautier received his B.S. (2008), M.S (2010) and Ph.D. in chemistry (2014) from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB – Belgium) where he focused on the development of novel transition metal complexes for opto-electronic applications with Prof. C. Moucheron and Prof. A. Kirsch-De Mesmaeker. He then undertook post-doctoral research at X4C, a new […]